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reenorapyesterday at 10:45 PM1 replyview on HN

The entire blue light madness is based on a poor study where N was around 8. And the difference in sleep was something like 15 mins. The entire study was based on crap but somehow the entire world has run rampant on the idea that blue light has this profound effect. It just goes to show that bad science is easily propagated, even when there's even more sources of information.


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Marsymarstoday at 6:34 AM

I don't know enough to defend the study, but I don't think 15 minutes of sleep is insignificant. If I'm consistently woken up 15 minutes before my normal wake time it's going to have a negative effect on me.